Head-easer.



I. ELFENBEIN.

HEAD EASER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29, 1913. RENEWED FEB. 9, 1915.

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ISIIDOR ELFENBEIN,

HEAD-EASIER.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Mar. 23,1915.

Application filed November 29, 1913, Serial No. 803,733. Renewed February 9, 1915. Serial No. 7,116.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, lemon ELFENBEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Head-Easers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification;

This invention relates to head, easers or supports, and has for its object to provide an improved rest for the head designed to be used on a bath tub or a chair for supporting the head in a comfortable position, preventing headaches by removing the strain on the muscles, and protecting the hair from getting wet when taking a bath.

Other objects will become apparent as the 7 description proceeds. I

The invention will. be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this specification, and then more specifically pointed out in the claim at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used throughout the several views to designate corresponding parts igure 1 is a broken perspective view head rest applied to a bath tub, Fig. 2 is a perspeotiveview showing the device applied to a rocking chair, and Fig. 3 is a cross section of the head rest.

The head easer or support consists of a generally rectangular wire frame over which a piece of flexible material, such as cloth, is stretched, said frame giving to the rest proper or cloth a certain resiliency or yielding quality which relieves the strain on the muscles of the back, neck and head, and thus prevents headaches which result from resting the head against the hard surface of a bath tub or chair. The open structure of the device, moreover, renders it entirely sanitary.

As illustrated, the head easer may be made of a frame A of stifi wire having the proper resiliency or yielding quantity. and a rest or support proper of waterproof cloth B riveted or otherwise secured to the front portion of the frame. Said frame may consist of a piece of the wire bent into the form of a rectangle and then bent near the middle to form spaced front and rear portions. The front portion of the frame, which carshowing my improved contact with the ries the cloth support B,;includ es one end a I of the original rectangle and parts a of its sides. It is around these parts of the frame that the cloth is folded and secured by rivets C. The rear portion ofthe frame is disposed substantially parallel to the front portion thereof and includes the other end a of the original rectangle and parts a of its sides, leaving intermediate parts a of said sides arranged preferably at right an gles to both front and rear portions of, the frame and connecting the same. The rear portion of the frame also has'a lower cross piece or brace of the same kind of wire arranged preferably at the junction of the parts a and a.

The end a and brace D, just referred to, are both curved to conform to the curvature of theend of a bath tub or of the back of a chair. To the end a there are independently pivoted two pairs of hooks or attaching members, a pair of large hooks E for attaching the device to a bath tub, and a pair of smaller hooks F for securing the device to the back of a chair. The hooks of both pairs are covered with rubber tubing, as shown at e and 7", respectively. By having the hooks separately pivoted, one pair will hang down out of the way when the other pair is in use.

The front cloth covered portion of the frame projects well above the rear'portion thereof so as to constitute an extension of the bath tub or chair back when the device is in use. This is an important feature of my invention,

for the reason that as a rule the ends of bath tubs and the backs of chairs are shorter than necessary to support the head of an adult person sitting erect. It will also be observed that the upper part of the front portion of the frame is free from the rearportion of said frame, whereby the front portion may yield to the weight or pressure of the head when in engagement with the cloth support, bringing the resiliency of the parts a and a into play. Said parts a being relatively long with respect to the rear portion of the frame, increases this resilient or yielding action. I

Another important feature of the invention is the leaving of the lower edge of the cloth support free from any cross braces which would be almost sure to come into head or neck of the user and thus defeat to a great extent the object of the device. Moreover, by leaving the lower edge of the cloth support free, the parts a and a may yield slightly toward each other, thus increasing the resiliency and comfort of the device.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is A device of the character described com prising a frame made of a single piece of bent Wire having a rear portion formed of a transversely extending portion of the Wire and tWo portions of the Wire bent at right angles to said transverse portion, said frame also having a front portion formed of a' transversely extending portion of the Wire and tWo portions of said Wire bent at right angles to said transverse portion of the front part of the frame, said front and rear portions of the frame being connected together by portions of the Wire joining the spaced one in front of the other, means for attaching the frame to an article of furniture, and a flexible covering for the front portion of the frame to receive the head of the user.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo attesting Witnesses.

ISID OR ELFENBEIN.

Witnesses:

JO N BRAMDNER, PHILIP LUM.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

